How did she do?

"Say it ain't so, Joe..."

After the debate, Dick Morris of Clinton administration fame, said this about Palin:
"Involved a level of communication skill not seen since Ronald Reagan."

I thought Governor Palin did a FANTASTIC job and won this one HANDS DOWN! As Biden tried to connect with mainstream America with comments such as his visiting Home Depot (does he get kickback for that plug?)...often, his words were lost on us due to the plain speakin' Governor who sounds like me (I didn't know other women said "daggone it..." and "weeeell, there ya' have it!") ha ha!) as well as tells the truth!
BTW,
Can someone tell Biden and the rest of those dems who favor these prolonged adjournments to stay in Washington and do his/their job, instead of taking multi weekly/month long vacations, to..appparently visit Home depot? geez...


Let's cut to the chase and into the meat, shall we?...
Palin clearly is the energy expert and none of them can deny that. She has studied her foreign policy and spoke incredibly well on that despite it being her weakness. She is strong on her knowledge of the Iraq war, and sounds to me like she has actually listened to Gen. Patraeus (thank you!) She debated VERY well, avoiding the unknown without looking caught in the headlights.

One thing it is important to remember is that NO ONE can know EVERY vote of a candidate, but we need to focus on the key points single as well as similarly combined votes on legislation. The common man doesn' not know this and thus can be easily misled. This is something I am just learning.
Another thing to remember:
Almost every piece of legislation has pork barrel spending attached and wordage which is enough to cause non votes on serious otherwise approved issues to the Reps., sweeteners, coattail riders attached, so it is VERY tough in some cases to know why a Representative/Congressman would vote a certain way, and this is why I feel it is important to look at complete packages. WHICH Senator running for the office of Presidency is seeking to try to do away with much of that? One hint: NOT Obama


Never in the History of this country has either side attacked the VP candidate for the Presidency for not knowing EVERYTHING... then turn around and from the other side of their faces, accuse her of "not knowing everything" but... she "man handled" him, threw him down, while he (in my opinion) got caught looking sweetly at her. Yuck.. double yuck...not flattering..


Biden is clearly an intelligent and experienced man. I liked how he showed some emotion on his family history. But, I don't know how these long term Senators can LIE on things that are on paper! SEVERAL times he said he didn't say things that he did. That which I have personally HEARD him say with my own eyes and ears! His vote on troops funding for one, his disagreements in the Democratic Primaries with Obama for another. HOW can they just lie like that?! He did the same spin with a number of McCain votes he claimed were the same as Obama's, and THAT is where he tried to catch her off guard. NO one knows EVERY vote. So much of how these guys prepare is in the hands of their handlers- ALL of them, and I sure wish they had not throw Palin into the wolves den with Couric and Charlie boy for the FIRST big interviews. they should have been AFTER the debate in my opinion.

How about that unclear confusing answer from Biden on same sex benefits vs. marriage, huh? What really bothered me about that was they keep trying to play on lies, such as the hospital visitation rights of gay couples!

Palins answer WAS my answer on that! Gays not being allowed to visit their loved ones in those circumstances is not happening in this country, but they want you to believe that it is and by the hands of Republicans! GRRRR... They'll do anything to paint us as non compassionate.

Even if you are like me and disagree with gay SPECIAL rights (MAJOR and all meaning emphasis on SPECIAL here), you would not disagree with this! The Obama camp KNOWS this, but it is part of their spreading anger amongst a group of people against the truth FOR their OWN POLITICAL BENEFIT.

A McCain-Palin administration would keep gay rights fair, but not give SPECIAL rights, changing definitions of marriage which would add to our downfall as a Nation. Guess what though? I don't think it sounds like Obama-Biden will be advocates for the gay agenda either, thought the LGB advocacy groups ARE in their pockets.

I have compassion for people of all differences and I have had great gay friends whom I did not agree with but it never had to come up, AND I ONLY ASK FOR THOSE WHO DO AGREE TO try TO HAVE COMPASSION FOR MY BIBLICALLY BASED BELIEFS as I do for my gay fellow Americans beliefs similarly.

So, that being said, I cannot express how I feel connected to Palin in so many ways and every time I see her family it makes me wish I could have a beautiful baby boy like that in my arms again, but THAT is another story...